Reading Lolly Willowes | Alexandria
Read Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner. Reclaiming witchcraft as radical female independence, Warner's understated masterpiece exposes how society stifles women's autonomy through politeness. Her subversive revelation? True liberation requires rejecting not just marriage, but the whole scaffolding of respectable society. A provocative meditation on solitude as power.